Sega Superstars Tennis

Sega Superstars Tennis is the latest game from developers Sumo Digital, a company which also worked on another sports game, Virtua Tennis 3. Featuring some of Sega's most popular...and not so popular characters, is this tennis game good enough to rival the simplistic Wii Sports Tennis?

We'll start with graphics. The characters are quite accurate to their appearances in previous games, and even some people might be able to recognise 'Gilius Thunderhead' and 'Alex Kidd' from the early 1990's. The tennis courts are fairly well designed, and all look colourful and clean - stages like Jet Set Radio and the underwater NiGHTS come to mind. However, although the designs are all fair and well, the graphics aren't much better than what you'd expect from the Nintendo GameCube. The graphics haven't been pushed to their limits, and this is where the game fails visually.

The Wii version of this game boasts three control types. The one I am most familiar is traditional, where...